RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 The internal mechanisms of entrepreneur´s social capital: A multi-network analysis
A1 Hernández Carrión, Carlos
A1 Camarero Izquierdo, María Carmen
A1 Gutiérrez Cillán, Jesús
K1 Capital social
K1 Emprendedores
K1 Relaciones sociales
K1 Pequeños emprendedores
K1 5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
AB The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two different mechanisms which may explain the enrichment and entrepreneurial exploitation processes of social capital's resources: (1) the resource mechanism, based on a network's size and diversity, providing quantity and variety of social capital resources, and (2) the exchange mechanism, based on a network's cohesion and relational quality, favouring the interchangeability of these resources among network members. The empirical study individually explores both the personal and professional networks of 958 Spanish entrepreneurs. Findings reveal how the two mechanisms are necessary and mutually complementary, although the resource mechanism proves more advantageous when exploiting personal networks, whereas the exchange mechanism prevails in the case of professional networks.
PB Elsevier
SN 2340-9436
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39047
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39047
LA eng
NO BRQ Business Research Quarterly, Febrero 2019.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-abr-2024